The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-09-24
REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARERS.
Letters of Acceptance from Mess. Brooks
Dixon and Miller, State Repub-
lican Nominees

Gentlemen Il beg to acknowledge the receipt
of the committees courteous letter, informing me
of my nomination for governor by the Republican
State Convention of Maryland, which convened in
Baltimore, August Oath, and through you desire to
express to the convention my high appreciation
of the honor thus conferred. 1 have read the re-
solutions adopted by the convention, and regard
them as eminently adapted to the issues of the
day. The questions of pressing Importance in
Marylan are of local, not national, character.
Therefore, it is of those only that l now design to
speak. The purity of the ballot-box is the first
essential of pure government and must be enforced.
Our existing election laws evidently defective,
besides having been grossly perverted by auda-
cous frauds practiced by officers of the law,
in so much that the will of the people has been
again and again defeated. In so far as these
frauds have been successful, our government has
ceased to be republican in form, and has become
the voice of usurping faction. The element in
control has for many years declined to correct
these fagant evils, and the reformers within the
party have been unable to overcome these abuses /;
hence our elections have become farce.
Now, if an election by the people means the
wish of the people, it is worthy the genius of the
age to devise some laws to protect that wish. In
q resolution, the convention declares chat reform
in the civil service should be thorough, radical
and complete" etc. This noble declaration gives
no uncertain sound, and accept it in its literal
sense, with earnest approval.
Again, a resolution which especially arrests at
tention is as follows: "That we are opposed to
the calling of the constitutional convention at this
time, and that we favor the submission to the
people of all questions of constitutional amend
ment in the manner prescribed by the Constitu-
tion," etc. heartily concur in this resolution,
which opposes the call of the constitutional con-
vention Frequent changes of the organic law of
state are fraught with evil. The constitution,
as above recited, provides a method for making
amendments as required. Such amendments have
been made in the past and may again be made
I assume that the dethronement of those known
as the "new judges" in our city would be one of
the objects of new constitution framed by the
element in power. These judges were elected by
the people when there was a crying need for just
such men, and they stand to-day as barrier and
menace to evil deeds. Is it not dangerous OK
pertinent to upturn the judiciary of city and state
1t seems proper and pardonahle to state my in
diyidual status in the event of being honored by
the required support Inasmuch as the General
Assembly is the law making power, and the gov
ernor simply the executive, he should represent
the community, and not party. All parties con-
tain men who want the right enforced, and whose
general intentions are good.
I have not had any political experience, and
therefore my only guide would be those rules,
based on business principles, in which have
been trained. Regarding, as do, any CONNER
cial or political preference as trust from the
hands of those interested, would administer the
larger and more important interests of the state
strictly from a non partisan standpoint-not in
words only, but in official acts.
| made this statement before the nomination,
and repeat it now with emphasis.
remain, your obedient servant
W. B. BROOKS.